quantumly

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English

Etymology

From quantum +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

Adverb

quantumly (not comparable)

  1. In a quantum manner; in terms of quantum theory; according to the laws of quantum mechanics.
    • 2012 February 25, ‘An uncertain future’, The Economist:
      Make a transistor too small, for example, and electrons within it can simply vanish from one place and reappear in another because their location is quantumly indeterminate.
  2. (figuratively) Involving a massive increase, especially over a short time or seemingly at once; in one giant leap forwards.
    • 1996, John W. Pereira, Opening Nights: 25 Years of the Manhattan Theatre Club, page 323:
      'What's different now,' said Grove, 'is that the landscape of the city has changed again, as inevitably it does, and the number of people who want a production from the Manhattan Theatre Club has grown sort of quantumly[.]'
    • 2012, Bola Essien-Nelson, The Diary of a Desperate Naija Woman in the Year 2011, page 142:
      So today, I am here today to talk about something equally important and quantumly more interesting I have to say.
    • 2018 July 31, Aqil Haziq Mahmud, “Singapore shoppers take 820 million plastic bags from supermarkets each year: Study”, in Channel NewsAsia:
      SEC chairman Isabella Huang-Loh said told reporters on Tuesday (Jul 31) that plastic bag usage in Singapore has 'quantumly grown' over the years.